Word: trucker
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...same token, some representatives of the world's largest minority, the humor-impaired, regard the women's response to an oil-tank trucker with whom + they keep playing fender tag as excessive. Every time they encounter him, the guy proves by word, smirk and obscene gesture that he's a chauvinist dinosaur. When he inquires if they're "ready to get serious," they reply encouragingly. What he doesn't know, of course, is that they're thinking metaphorically, with a little help from director Scott, with whose surrealistic reinvention of the West -- one-third desert, one-third industrial wasteland...
Consider the case of Jeannette Shulda, rendered a quadriplegic in 1984. She was helping her long-haul trucker husband when a pallet fell on her, crushing her spinal cord. A company called Transit Casualty (remember that name) paid out more than $300,000 in medical expenses and 24-hour care. Then everything stopped. At the end of 1985 Transit Casualty went broke. For technical reasons, the California state guaranty fund wouldn't cover the claim. Eventually it probably will (just hang in there, Mrs. Shulda), but nearly five years later, the case is still in the courts...